17 arrested in crackdown on California-Mexico methamphetamine ring
Adolfo Flores (Los Angeles Times) | August 24, 2012
Local and federal authorities moved Thursday to break up an alleged drug trafficking ring connecting a major Mexican cartel to San Gabriel Valley street gangs and arrested 17 people in a pre-dawn sweep.
A federal indictment unsealed Thursday charges 27 people with making, possessing and dealing methamphetamine imported by La Familia Michoacana, one of Mexico’s most violent cartels, to two Pomona gangs: Los Amables and Westside Pomona Malditos.
Thursday’s crackdown is the culmination of Operation Crystal Light, a 16-month investigation by the San Gabriel Valley Safe Streets Gang Task Force. The investigation was launched after a 2011 kidnapping among suspected gang members in Southern California.
Officers said they seized nine weapons, an undisclosed amount of methamphetamine, other drugs, and paraphernalia in Thursday morning raids in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The probe involved about 200 law enforcement officers and several undercover purchases.
“The goal of the federal task force is to disrupt the network so it’s disrupted permanently,” Timothy Delaney, special agent in charge of the FBI’s criminal division in Los Angeles, said. “Today’s arrests took some very serious players in the methamphetamine world off the streets.”
Read more at: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gang-bust-20120824,0,4196461.story
Tags: California-Mexico methamphetamine ring, drug trafficking ring, La Familia Michoacana, liquid meth, Los Amables, Mexican cartel, Operation Crystal Light, San Gabriel Valley, San Gabriel Valley Safe Streets Gang Task Force, Westside Pomona Malditos
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